The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I always liked different things, rare things.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.